Quote #56

All my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring displeasure of friends.

More from Mahatma Gandhi

  1. Selfishness is blind.
  2. Truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
  3. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than acts of eating, drinking etc. It will be no exaggeration to…
  4. I learned at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.
  5. A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than a person who is born in it.
  6. One could rely on people's promises in most matters except in respect of money.
  7. Accept the interpretation honestly put on the pledge by the party administering it. - Golden Rule
  8. The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.

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